From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@kroah.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:37:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxVyqScRU_c6RWVVub-tteuwjSq5JmThUtoxU-arBuh1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPXgP12jXOJzTTgwQkm7XK_ig2iEKAbhgNkF+MRR6_S49Tqx_A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On a 2.6.31 system, immediately after SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_CLEAR, a
>> SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_UNREAD returns 0.
>
> Hmm, sounds like the right thing to do.
Right.
And that's the *OLD* behavior (2.6.31).
>> On 3.5, immediately after SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_CLEAR, the value returned
>> by SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_UNREAD is unchanged
And this is the *NEW* behavior, and as you say:
> Which sounds at least like weird behaviour, if not "broken".
So the new behavior is insane and different. Let's fix it.
It looks like it is because the new SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_UNREAD code
does not take the new clear_seq code into account. Hmm?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-28 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-03 0:29 [PATCH RESEND 1/3] printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer Kay Sievers
2012-05-03 19:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-03 19:54 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-03 19:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-03 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03 20:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-03 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03 20:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-03 20:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-05-08 8:48 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-08 11:14 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-08 13:33 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-08 14:29 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-08 15:33 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-08 15:57 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-08 16:27 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-08 22:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-05-09 3:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-09 4:06 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-09 4:11 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-09 4:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-09 4:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-09 7:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-09 13:21 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-09 13:29 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-10 0:54 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-10 1:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-10 2:32 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-10 2:46 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-10 16:39 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-10 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-10 18:49 ` Tony Luck
2012-05-10 19:09 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-10 20:14 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-05-10 20:37 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-10 20:39 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-10 20:46 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-10 20:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-10 21:11 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-10 21:15 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-10 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-11 0:13 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-11 0:38 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-11 1:23 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-14 18:46 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-10 21:01 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-10 20:38 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-09 9:38 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-09 13:50 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-09 14:37 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-09 23:02 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-09 23:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-05-10 2:30 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-11 10:35 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-11 15:19 ` Greg KH
2012-05-11 15:22 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-11 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-11 15:40 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-11 15:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-11 19:51 ` Mark Lord
2012-05-11 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-12 18:04 ` Mark Lord
2012-05-12 7:43 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-12 18:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-13 11:08 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-13 13:22 ` Mark Lord
2012-05-13 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-13 22:19 ` Mark Lord
2012-05-14 16:40 ` valdis.kletnieks
2012-05-17 3:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-13 21:48 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-13 21:30 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-26 11:11 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-27 14:23 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-29 16:07 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-29 16:14 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-29 16:34 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-29 16:51 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-29 17:11 ` Luck, Tony
2012-05-29 17:22 ` Kay Sievers
2012-05-30 11:29 ` Kay Sievers
2012-06-06 6:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartmann
2012-06-15 0:04 ` Greg KH
2012-06-15 1:31 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-15 12:07 ` Kay Sievers
2012-06-15 12:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-15 21:53 ` Greg KH
2012-06-15 12:23 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-15 20:54 ` Tony Luck
2012-11-28 13:33 ` Michael Kerrisk
2012-11-28 16:22 ` Kay Sievers
2012-11-28 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-11-28 16:49 ` Kay Sievers
2012-11-28 17:51 ` Kay Sievers
2012-11-29 13:18 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2012-11-29 13:28 ` Kay Sievers
2012-11-29 13:37 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2012-11-29 14:08 ` Kay Sievers
2012-11-29 14:18 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2012-11-29 14:31 ` Kay Sievers
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